SSL: What’s In It For You ?

SSL*:What’s in it for you?

Recent training sessions for the first year class have revealed that at least some SOM’ers  are not aware of what library services they are purchasing with their tuition dollars.  Here are the top 5 things you should know:

1. Harvard Business Review (and other business magazines or journals) Full text of articles from the first issue to the most recent can be accessed from your desktop.  For easiest access go to  Online Journals and Newspapers, type in the journal title and then click on the journal title to go directly to individual issues.

2. Wall Street Journal,  New York Times and Washington Post. Look each paper up in Online Journals and Newspaper to search the complete papers from   1889, 1851 and 1877 respectively.

3.  Reference books online  See Online Reference Resources for encyclopedias, foreign language dictionaries, style guides and more. Use Gale’s  Ready Reference Shelf   for directories such as the Encyclopedia of Associations and  for a quick guide to U.S. government statistics go to Yale’s  Government Document Center’s Electronic Reference Titles.

4.  Study space:  SSL*, It’s not pretty, but there are comfy chairs and your Yale wireless connection works on all floors. The Mudd Library, in back of Donaldson has an attractive reading room, also with wireless (library hours).

5.  Expert reference help.  In addition to the SOM librarians, Hella Heydorn and Judy Carnes, librarians are available to guide your research in areas such as psychology, international relations, statistical data,  LGBT studies, economics and more.  See the Subject Specialists  list.

Have other items to add to the list?  Please let me know: Judy Carnes

*SSL, aka the Social Science Library, a rusting building with the faded blue glass, is located across the street at 140 Prospect St., You need to walk down a ramp to enter the building.

Institutional Investor Magazine

      The Social Science Library (SSL–the library for SOM)  now has an electronic subscription to the  last 2 years of  the full-text of the International and Americas edition of the Institutional Investor and Alpha (covers global hedge funds).  This services includes league tables, research rankings, Hedge Fund 100 and more.  Simply go to: Dailyii.com.Please note:  You must be either on campus or connected via VPN to access this proprietary  resource.

What if you need the articles that are over 2 years old ?

Go to Online Journals , type in the journal title  and click on it to gain access to a more complete backfile.  If you need further assistance please e-mail judith.carnes@yale.edu  or hella.heydorn@yale.edu.